‘La Nena’ (little girl) is the nickname that she carries around the world since she entered adolescence. However, even if she is still young and girl-like, Dominique ‘Dom’ Pinto moves around the music scene like a seasoned actress. Her experience is enviable and she can easily be described as a “musician of the world”. She was born in Porto Alegre, but couldn’t settle too much in the South Brazilian city, because she moved to Paris with her parents when she was little more than 8. Then, when se was 13, she decided to go all alone to Buenos Aires to study cello with the Christine Walevska, one of the most recognized interpreters of the instrument. Finally, five years later, she returned to the French capital where her career definitely blossomed. The release of her …show more content…
But there’s also a lot of beautiful old French music, not to mention the classical one, which is incredible and has always strongly influenced me. But actually, I can’t say if there’s anything in particular which influences me”. If we were allowed to answer to our own questions, we’d say that it’s her own life spent around the world to have deeply influenced Dom La Nena’s music… And this explanation often leaked out from her words: “I feel very lucky, because I started to learn music in Brazil when I was five and it was something related to the happiness to play an instrument: it was something really pleasurable, not competitive. While when I moved to France, it was something completely different. Even if we were children, there was a lot of discipline and the atmosphere was extremely serious. Then I went to Buenos Aires and it was half way in between: it was a mixture between European and South American culture. That’s why I think that I’d reach a very good balance only because I lived in those three countries and experienced these three ways to play music. Maybe I’d move to Africa